Shutter-mounting.



G. POWERS.

SHUTTER MOUNTING.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1, 1914v 1,117,903. Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

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GUS POW'EIRS, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

SHUTTER-MOUN TING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 1'7, 1914.

Application filed June 1, 1914. Serial No. 842,135.

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The present invention relates to shutter mountings, and has for anobject to provide improved shutter mountings whereby the shutters may bemoved to assume a position parallel and spaced from the indow frame tointercept the view into the room, and at the same time provideventilating channels between the frame and the shutters.

Another object of the present invention is to provide improved shuttermountings whereby the shutters may be secured to swing in a horizontalplane, in opening and closing the same, in the usual manner; or theshutters may be released and permitted to move to the ventilatingposition above indicated.

A further object of the invention resides in the provision of suitablemechanism for maintaining the shutters in the various positions to whichthe same may be adjusted.

It is within the contemplation of the invention to provide shuttermountings. of the above character, employed in conjunction with a windowframe provided with a pocket, into which the sliding sashes may be movedto render the opening in the frame unobstructed and secure the bestventilating results.

lVith these and other objects in view the invention consists in thenovel details of construction and combinations of parts more fullyhereinafter disclosed and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this application, and inwhich similar reference symbols indicate corresponding parts in theseveral views: Figure 1 is an elevational view of the outside of awindow frame showing the shutters in closed position. Fig. 2 is a viewsimilar to Fig. 1, and showing the shutters in open position. Fig. 3 isa similar view to Fig. 1, and illustrating the shutters 1n one positionfor ventilation. Fig. at is an elevation of a window frame from theinterior, and

showing the shutters arranged in spaced relation therefrom. Fig. 5 is avertical sectional view of a window frame showing the shutters in theposition occupied by the same in Fig. 4-. Fig. 6 is a horizontalsectional view taken through the center of the shutters, and showingsame in closed position; and Fig. 7 is a similar View showing theshutters in the position occupied by the same in Fig. 4. j

Referring more particularly to the drawing, 1 designates a window frameconstructed with a pocket or recess 2, closed by the hinged sill 3, andinto which the upper and lower sliding sashes 4 and 5 may be moved toleave the opening in the win dow frame unobstructed, as will be understood.

The shutters 6 and 7 are supported by mountings constructed each of ashankS, and a pair of leaves 9 and 10 pivoted to opposite ends thereofand secured, respectively, to the window frame 1 and one of theshutters. The pivot joint, connecting the shank S and the leaf 9, ispreferably constructed to permit disengagement of the parts when theshutter is raised vertically, as is usual in demounting shutters fromhinges at present ordinarily employed. It will be understood that theshutters may be swung horizontally from closed position, as indicated inFig. 1, to open position, as shown in Fig. 2, and the same may besecured in closed position by means of the sliding bolt 11, arranged toproject from one shutter and engage a keeper 12 carried by the othershutter.

The shutters are further arranged to be moved about the pivotalconnections provided between the outer leaves 10 and the respectiveshanks 8 of the mountings, to assume the position shown in Fig. 3, inwhich the shutters are arranged in V relation. In this position one ofthe shutters is arranged to encounter air currents and direct the sameinto the room, whereby to induce adraft therein and permit the foul airto be forced through the opening made by the other shutter.

The shutters may be moved to a greater degree about the outer pivotalconnection to the position shown in Fig. 4:, where the same are arrangeddirectly in front of the window opening and in spaced and parallelrelation thereto. A pivoted hook 13 provides for maintaining theshutters in this 7 position, where the latter form, with the bill andarranged to project into a recess 116 formed in the body of the shutter.

A catch 17 carried by a sliding block 18, engages the bill 15 on thefinger 14 and prevents the shutter pivoting about the leaf 10. Thevbloclc 18 is yieldingly held in operative position by means of a spring19, and the catch 17 is beveled, as indicated at 20, to encounter thefinger 14, whereby the latter may more the block 18 against the actionof the spring 19 and permit the finger to enter the recess 16. The block18 is movable to disengage the finger 1% by means of a rod '21projecting from the block through a slotted plate 23, and the rod 21 isprovided with v a knob 22 for conveniently manipulating I the same. 1

It will be understood that the catches :17 are normally in engagementwith the fingers 14;, whereby relative movement of the shutters aboutthe shanks 8 is prevented, and

the shutters swing in the ordinary manner to open and close the sameabout the inner leaves When it is desired to adjust the shutters toeither of the positions shown in Figs. 3 and at, the. sliding blocks 18are retracted against the action of the springs 19 by manipulating theknobs 22. This action operates to release the fingers 14 and permits theshutters to be revolved about the shanks 8 of the m0untings, and thesame can thereupon be made to assume the desired position. Each of theshanks.8,. of the-central mountings, is provided withv .a stop 2against. which each outer leaflO abuts when the shutters are'in theposition shown to advantage in Fig. 7.

It is obvious-that those skilled :in. the art may vary the details ofconstruction and ar+ rangement of parts withoutdeparting. from a thespirit-of my invention, and therefore I do not wish to-be-limited tosuohfeatures except as may be required by the claim.

I claim;

The combination with a window. frame, of a pair of shutters for closingthe opening: therein, andv mountings; for holding said shuttersmend-abutting relation spaced and parallel from said window frame toprovide therewith ventilating channels, substantially;

as described.

In testimony whereof, I affixmy-"slgn'ature, in presenceof tWowitnesses-L GUS POWERS.

Witnesses:

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